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on December 4, 1897 ; one was taken in Granville County on January 

 7, 1902; and another was recorded from Nash County late in Novem- 

 ber 1909. One was collected at Mill Creek, Randolph County, 

 W. Va., on January 10, 1927. 



According to the Louisiana Department of Conservation, there are 

 two specimen records for that State, one killed at Baton Rouge and 

 the other at Bayou Des Allemands (date of collection not available for 

 either case). One was taken at Bardstown, Ky., in 1810; a second 

 was seen in that area about 1905; while a third was noted at Bowling 

 Green in February 1892. 



In Texas one has been recorded from near San Antonio about 1850, 

 and another was shot at Austin during the winter of 1876. In 1896 

 five were recorded from California, one being taken in the San Fran- 

 cisco Bay area on December 2; another was reported from Chula 

 Vista, San Diego County, during the same month; while about that 

 time three others were noted in Sonoma County. During the last 

 decade of the last century one was "winged" and kept alive as a pet 

 for several years in Santa Cruz County. One specimen was taken 

 December 26, 1908, at Eureka; another was taken at Trinidad on 

 November 17, 1916; while a third was captured about the same date 

 at Mattole. 



Egg dates. — Arctic Alaska: 20 records, June 1 to 29; 10 records, 

 June 12 to 24, indicating the height of the season. 



Arctic Canada: 10 records, May 25 to June 24; 5 records, June 16 

 to 21. 



Southampton Island: 9 records, May 25 to June 30. 



SURNIA ULULA PALLASI Buturlin 

 SIBERIAN HAWK OWL 



HABITS 



This bird replaces the European hawk owl, which has stood on our 

 list for many years, as a rare straggler into Alaska. Since the Siberian 

 bird has been described and given a name, as subspecifically distinct 

 from the European bird, it naturally follows that pallasi is the race 

 that should occur in Alaska. It is of very rare occurrence, however, 

 as only two records have been reported. The first record is based 

 on a bird, one of three observed, taken by Lucien M. Turner (1886) 

 near St. Michael, Alaska, in October 1876. Mr. Turner writes: 



The first bird of the kind that I saw was brought to me by a native, who obtained 

 it in the bushes near the southeast base of Shaman Mountain, near the Redoubt. 

 An Eskimo dog stole the bird and destroyed it before I could get it away. The 

 second specimen was procured by me. I was ascending a gravelly point of land 

 on the northeast end of the island, when a native who was with me called my 

 attention to the bird, sitting in a clump of rank grass. I had no gun with me; 

 the native assured me that the bird was not vicious. I seized the bird with my 



